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Takanohana beya has recruited an 18 year old Mongolian. The kid is a Tottori Jouhoku (Kotomitsuki's alma mater, among others) third year high school student. He will be undergoing the physicals for November. He has been in Japan since March 2006, winning in the middleweight category in last year's amateur Junior World Championships held in Thailand and finishing second in the national high school championships held last May. He is a fan of Takanohana's and will be his first Mongolian recruit and the first new recruit with any serious prior sumo experience. "The foreign rikishis' hinkaku is being questioned at the moment, but I'm far removed from those things. Every man is an individual, and I'd like to go down my own road honestly and slowly..", said the kid. He is an orphan who lost his mother in 2000 and his father in 2006. "He is a man of the world versed in the ways of Bushido.." said Takanohana, hinting that he has high hopes for the kid. As for his actual debut, it all depends when he gets his entertainers' visa and could still be Kyushu, but may be January. "I'd like to become a sekitori as soon as I can", he said. He is 1.82 meters and weighs 120 kilos.He has an older brother and an older sister.

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He has been in Japan since March 2006, winning in the middleweight category in last year's amateur Junior World Championships held in Thailand and finishing second in the national high school championships held last May.

He also silvered in the junior heavyweight category this year and took bronze in the men's team competition. Evidently nobody reads those 240 metric tons of results I typed up... It's Adiya Baasandorj according to the World Championship data, BTW, but I'm not going to bet any steaks that that's 100% correct as there were some obvious typos in there (so I'm guessing there were also some non-obvious ones).

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[OK now that we got his real name straight, i've got a shikona for him.

We already have Kotooshu but no Asia yet. So rhyming with his first name Adiya, how about Taka-Asia －貴亜細亜.

Neat, but if his name is Baasandorj, that 'Adiya' that comes first is his father's name. Almost all Mongolians have only one name, and put their father's one name in front. Googling 'Mongolian names' will get you misleading information abiout family names being officially handed out.

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Takanohana-beya's new recruit, Mongolian Adiya Baasandorj, had his shin-deshi tests on the 30th but on the 29th he had taken part in his first keiko session at the heya. Having hte pedigree of coming from Tottori Johoku High and being the Junior World Middleweight champion, during moshiai he overwhelmed the head rikishi in the heya, former makushita but now sandanme Takakihou. He displayed a high level of ability. Shisho takanohana oyakata made the assessment "That he's able to do this in his first training really shows something." The man himself sadi "I want to become a sekitori as soon as I can" and is looking forward to his hatsu-dohyo. However, it is doubtful that his entertainer visa will be processed in time for Kyushu so he'll probably have to wait until january to get on the dohyo.

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I don't want to squeal on Adiya like Dobbernoho but I'm sure he wasn't drinking yaks milk when I met him in Thailand after the worlds.The Mongolian team all seem to enjoy a well deserved tasty beverage.They virtually inhaled the jugs of beer I sent over.

He seems a really nice guy and I'm sure he tear his way up the banzuke.

I thought he said he was from Totoro High. I imagined that it was a school full of wonderful Studio Ghibli characters and he got picked up everyday by the Catbus.Just as well I declined their kind offer of a glass of that Duty Free Mongolian Cordial or might have had nightmares about the school mascot below.

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I don't want to squeal on Adiya like Dobbernoho but I'm sure he wasn't drinking yaks milk when I met him in Thailand after the worlds.The Mongolian team all seem to enjoy a well deserved tasty beverage. They virtually inhaled the jugs of beer I sent over.